part. truth detectives starts feb fifteenth on t.w. . this is news coming to you live from berlin british lawmakers voted to send theresa may back to brussels parliament gives me a mandate to renegotiate her brakes and deal with the e.u. especially the part concerning northern ireland says no new deal is this mission impossible go to london brussels also coming up but of course bans self

declared interim president why do the country and freezes his assets or venezuela analyst what to expect as the country prepares for more rallies today. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us there's a potential standoff brewing between britain and the e.u. again after british lawmakers last night voted to reopen talks on the bronx agreement parliamentarians have given prime minister theresa may a mandate to renegotiate the so-called irish backstop that's the plan to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the republican bar but the e.u. insists that provision cannot be changed well with the clock ticking on an. orly

brags what happens next is still unclear but may framed the house of commons vote is a win here's what she had to say. we will now take this mandate forward and seek to obtain legally binding changes to the truly great deal with concerns on the back stop while guaranteeing no hard no return to hard border between north and turned on and my colleagues and i will talk to the you about how we address the house's view as i said this afternoon there is going to talk to tighten such a change in the negotiating it will not be. foreseen contrast to a fortnight ago this house has made it clear what it needs to approve a withdrawal agreement well we've got team coverage for you on this story do w.'s back at last is with us in london and our correspondent joins us from brussels good morning to you both bagot help us make sense of what the british parliament walts

at this point they seem to be saying on the one hand we don't want to leave the e.u. without a deal but we can't accept the deal that's all the table which is the only deal available what options do they think they have. well the brics it is and also it's a reason they are happy that they finally decided on some plan of action they said now we have a plan and this is what reason they has to go back to brussels too and they believe that they can somehow push the e.u. to give in on the issue off on the future the future status of of north or not and so they think that's for some reason the e.u. will have bugs at the last moment and that it's not everything is as they say boris johnson when it was put to him that europe was very negative about what series i made what parliament i have said to him well he said well no believe you me she can do it she can go back to brussels and she can come back with another deal so they just don't believe the words that we hear from brussels so tory some way wants to

return to brussels she has the mandate to try to renegotiate the deal she struck with the e.u. in november what reception is she likely to get in brussels. she will be greeted warmly and friend is always talks and kisses included john clode younger and others here but when it comes down to business the atmosphere will be more frosty and that's for two reasons first of all there's nobody to negotiate with because the men date of the show don the the chief negotiator has run out with the treaty he concluded his theories amazing and now he needs a new tell us to negotiate and the second question is then about what what is the magical solution what is the alternative to the famous infamous back stop talking about now for months as so far this is may has not presented anything in brussels and some diplomas i spoke to say just let's do the game of poker just wait

until the twenty nine days and then britain. because the parliament also said there is not a break sit with out of the oh so simply wait and then breaks it has to be postponed or called off altogether so it may be a game of chicken who blinks first loses. pick at it it doesn't sound like there's any magical solution that's to be found there in brussels could we end up seeing a second referendum or even general elections in the u.k. if there's no breakthrough. well we could even though there was also one amendment that was invade to treat us night which actually said that if there is no deal at the end of february then there needs to be an extension which would have given more time to prepare as a thing like a second referendum so that power and incidentally crashed after the votes last night and that's not a good sign for any move that brings a solution to the crisis so a second referendum maybe if there is really no other way fez nops it impossible

but the government has to call for one and it has to have a majority has so we're not much wiser from from what happened yet last night as to what is really going to happen not much wiser beyond we're getting closer and closer to march twenty ninth not much wiser the u.k. departure the u.k. scheduled to leave the e.u. on march twenty ninth is the e.u. ready for the u.k. to crush out. where there is some contingency plans already in the making to keep planes flying and to keep the ferries crossing the channel but the you made it very clear that they don't bomb britain to crush it without no deal because that would mean took a is and economic damage to both sides and it would not salute the resolve the un and because of the hot border would then a pia immediately on the move on and and the republicans in the government wants to avoid the any cost so all eyes now on dublin it depends on dublin how they are

flexible if the you can you know just give in to the brits the brakes drama continues banter you get there for us in brussels and in london was buried at last thank you very much to you but. now to some of the other stories making news around the world today large parts of the united states are bracing for the worst cold snap in recent memory temperatures across the midwest to maine are forecast to plunge to as low as minus fifty three degrees celsius the deep freeze is a result of arctic air spinning southward and is expected to bring snow as far south as alabama and georgia. two people have been killed in a grenade attack on a mosque in the southern philippines it in zamboanga city comes just days after a cathedral bombing on nearby holo island left twenty one people dead it follows

a referendum last week that overwhelmingly approved the creation of a muslim autonomous area in the region. and the death toll in brazil's disaster has reached eighty four almost three hundred people are missing and feared dead under the sludge that was released when the dam collapsed on friday the mining waste now threatens to contaminate a river that provides drinking water to five states five people have been arrested in connection with disaster. venezuela's top court has frozen the bank accounts of the country's opposition leader in south clare interim president on why go and also barred him from leaving the country as follows in order by the us with his attorney general to launch an investigation into why do the u.s. and several other nations have recognized the thirty five year old as venezuela's legitimate head of state after he launched a challenge to incumbent leader nicolas maduro last week. on tuesday washington

also handed control of venezuela's u.s. bank accounts over to want the opposition leader has shrugged off the legal maneuvers being launched at home against him take a listen. i'm not underestimating the threat of jail and i don't want it to be understood like that very responsibly i say there is nothing new coming from a regime that doesn't answer to the venezuelan people's needs their only response is repression and persecution. on quite a speaking there well let's now go to jennifer camino gonzalez from the latin american service jennifer m a doro is clearly putting the squeeze on one guy though he's facing a criminal investigation now as assets are seized and he can't leave the country is it just a matter of time before quite it is a rest. well let's face it he should have been arrested already the government usually moves very quickly on these and these opposition figures don't forget the

fall of the lopez he was leading protests in twenty fourteen and certainly if you can on those protests he was arrested and he's still in in custody he's on their home arrest so the question is why isn't he arrested why hasn't he been arrested yet and the answer is the united states the u.s. has said that if y. though is arrested that they won't take harsher measures and that is the problem that the government is actually afraid of there's they're afraid that if they move into harshly on white though that it might invite more intervention from the united states and so their plans of pressure but then also holding back so to speak and holding back we've even heard that mud duros says he's ready for talks with the opposition what do you make about. now all of this is what they always do they this is what he wants ultimately he does not want to call for new elections and he doesn't want to leave power but the third way for him which he has done before with the opposition every time that that the opposition mobilize is people he says well

let's talk and so he has the backing of mexico and your wife for this and now he thinks that this is the way to diffuse the situation but the opposition is not likely to take this deal because they know what happens when this occurs that they go to the negotiating table normalization that is down and then and the end the government just continues to stay in power today is an important day in bed as well a wider has called for more demonstrations against government today what can we expect well you can expect people to go out in the streets the position is mobilize it is unified it is firmly behind right though but at the same time the threat of violence is real people are still scared of dying in the street people have already died since last week and the government is not afraid to jail people to to apply force so that could depress the turnout but we should definitely at least expect mobilization today to happen now looking at the bigger picture here quite of says

he is venezuela's a legitimate interim president he's been recognized by a number of other governments but is there any indication that look doro might be willing to relinquish power or call a fresh election. well my they're all want to stay on as long as possible he's going to do anything to hold onto his power and so it is not likely that he will call for elections but the thing is that this is the long game here and the opposition is playing it and they know that ultimately all that they need is for the stars to align her for one or two generals to that to deflect from the government and that could come if there is a bad situation with that with the money everything in in venice as government is about money about the oil and now that the u.s. has imposed sanctions on previously the state oil company we have to wonder what will happen and the long term if this starts affecting the government and if with the international pressure that one or two generals say you know what out then that

could make a difference and then right there the bad the high risk that the opposition has done could pay off a lot of risks and jennifer comino gonzalez from our latin america desk thank you so much efforts to free a bahraini football player from a thai prison gathered pace with the asian football confederation now calling for his release hakim arrived he was detained more than two months ago while on honeymoon in bangkok he claims he has previously been falsely imprisoned and tortured in bahrain the nation of his birth. more than sixty days off the first being detained in thailand became al-arabiya remains in limbo separated from his wife unable to return to his adopted country astray and his job as a professional footballer. i ten you prison sentence the whites al-arabiya if he is extradited to bahrain even though he was playing in

a televised football match when the alleged crime took place. activists have been tirelessly advocating for his release with former footballer craig foster a meeting with a far anti officials this wake bahrain only in the last few days have escalated this issue and. clearly stated their intention in a brazen fashion to to contravene the international human rights of paki male arriving. on shoes day the asian football confederation weighed into the issue asking thailand's prime minister in an open letter to ensure mr al arabiya is returned safely to a stray leah governing body faith has also called for the players release we agreed that this is now become an emergency situation we want to say progress along with this week given the immediacy of the situation and we continue to call for.

thailand and to the prime minister. to release immediately enough of these international human rights. with al-arabiya having spent two months in detention falsest said he wants the case results before friday. it watching news from berlin coming up next part one of our documentary series berlin with trouble us of crime looking at the german capital's turbulent years leading up to the nazi era and more still to come. state by state. colorful. liveliest. the most traditional. find it all at any time. check in with a web special. take a tour of germany state by state. on t w dot com.